Climate change and drought: the soil moisture perspective

A Berg, J Sheffield - Current Climate Change Reports, 2018 - Springer
Purpose of review We review the extensive and sometimes conflicting recent literature on
drought changes under global warming. We focus on soil moisture deficits, which are …

[HTML][HTML] Importance of considering technology growth in impact assessments of climate change on agriculture

P Aggarwal, S Vyas, P Thornton, BM Campbell… - Global Food …, 2019 - Elsevier
Many assessments of climate change impacts on global crop yields project declines as early
as the 2020s. Losses are projected to increase with time, up to 50% by the 2080s. We carry …

Divergent effects of climate change on future groundwater availability in key mid-latitude aquifers

WY Wu, MH Lo, Y Wada, JS Famiglietti… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Groundwater provides critical freshwater supply, particularly in dry regions where surface
water availability is limited. Climate change impacts on GWS (groundwater storage) could …

[HTML][HTML] How will the progressive global increase of arid areas affect population and land-use in the 21st century?

J Spinoni, P Barbosa, M Cherlet, G Forzieri… - Global and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
One of the possible consequences of projected global warming is the progressive
enlargement of drylands. This study investigates to what extent population and land-use …

Long-term variability and trends in meteorological droughts in Western Europe (1851-2018)

S Vicente Serrano… - International …, 2020 - livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk
We analysed long‐term variability and trends in meteorological droughts across Western
Europe using the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI). Precipitation data from 199 stations …

Wetting and greening Tibetan Plateau in early summer in recent decades

W Zhang, T Zhou, L Zhang - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Tibetan Plateau (TP) plays an essential role in the global hydrological cycle.
Unlike the well‐recognized surface warming, changes in precipitation over the TP and the …

Quantification of human contribution to soil moisture-based terrestrial aridity

Y Wang, J Mao, FM Hoffman, CJW Bonfils… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Current knowledge of the spatiotemporal patterns of changes in soil moisture-based
terrestrial aridity has considerable uncertainty. Using Standardized Soil Moisture Index (SSI) …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of soil moisture trends in Europe using rank-based and empirical decomposition approaches

L Almendra-Martín, J Martínez-Fernández… - Global and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
The impact of climate change on soil moisture (SM) dynamics is uncertain. Changes in the
Earth's SM during recent decades have been studied globally and in different regions, but …

Attribution of global soil moisture drying to human activities: A quantitative viewpoint

X Gu, Q Zhang, J Li, VP Singh, J Liu… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic impacts on widespread global soil moisture (SM) drying in the root zone
layer during 1948–2005 were evaluated based on the Global Land Data Assimilation …

A quantitative assessment of groundwater resources in the Middle East and North Africa region

K Lezzaik, A Milewski - Hydrogeology Journal, 2018 - search.proquest.com
Abstract The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is the world's most water-stressed
region, with its countries constituting 12 of the 15 most water-stressed countries globally …